Online HWR Resources

External resources for the HWR researcher or enthusiast !  If you have resources to add to this page, please contact us.

Links

• Handwriting Datasets
• Organizations and Research Groups
• Standards
• Conferences
• Competitions and Benchmarks
• Journals
• Other Links

Handwriting Datasets

Organizations and Research Groups

• Pen-based Interfaces and Handwriting Recognition at HP Labs, India
• IAPR TC-11 (Reading Systems)
• International Unipen Foundation (iUF)

Standards

• UNIPEN 1.0 - The de facto standard for online handwriting datasets
• Digital Ink Markup Language (InkML) - a proposed XML representation for digital ink from W3C
• Unipen XML (UPX) - a proposed standard for annotated datasets of online handwriting from iUF and HP Labs

Conferences

• International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR)
• International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
• Most Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning conferences (e.g. ICPR)

Competitions and Benchmarks

• IWFHR 2006 Online Tamil Handwritten Character Recognition Competition
• ICDAR 2003 Cursive Script Recognition Competition

Journals

• International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)
• Most journals dealing with Pattern Recognition (e.g. IEEE PAMI, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters), Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks.

Other Links

• Omniglot - Writing Systems and Languages of the world